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1 year ago https://twitter.com/johnspurlock points out that you can go into Spotify's settings and just tell them you host with a company that supports passthrough (like libsyn or captivate), and they will pass through the requests for analytics
subtitle: Fighting bitrot by clawing podcasts back into existence description: TLDR, https://megaphone.spotify.com/ rehosts all mp3s category: tutorial
I have been a guest on a lot of podcasts, but surprisingly for an immutable medium, podcasts don't stay around forever. Domains expire, urls break, stupid mistakes happen. I know I'd love to look back on myself 30 years from now and laugh at how naive I used to be, so step 1 is keeping that around.
I have been re-syndicating my own appearances on other people's podcast on my mixtape, which I at least completely control. This serves dual purposes of fighting bitrot and allowing people to subscribe to this one feed to find me on all podcasts. Today I discovered that my one episode with Jeff Meyerson (RIP)'s Software Engineering Daily had been accidentally overwritten and lost to history. This was of course disappointing and I flailed around for a bit looking for the episode.
To save you time, I found it.
Here's what I ended up doing that worked:
ERROR: unable to download video data: <urlopen error [Errno 8] nodename nor servname provided, or not known>errorsIronically, all this is only possible because Spotify hates supporting the indie web and podcast ecosystem so much that it rehosts all the mp3 in order to deny podcasters their analytics (so you have to go to Spotify to get their numbers). Screw you, and thank you Spotify.